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AUGUST METEORS OF 1928.—Mr. W. F. Denning writes: “The August meteors returned this year with tolerable activity, but in point of numbers they were not very abundant so far as the data enabled a fair judgment to be formed. On the night (Aug. 11), when the maximum is usually attained, the sky was cloudy in the hours following midnight and observation could not be made, so that the time and strength of the shower at its best were not ascertainable. However, the display did not fail in bringing some bright and beautiful objects, with the same swiftness of motion and phosphorescent trails as we have been accustomed to witness. The radiant, too, exhibited the usual displacement to eastwards night to night.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 122, 287 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122287a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122287a0